This whole initiative made me look up the other stores again and look what I found:
https://www.zoom-platform.com/#store-trickstyle
With exclusive Mac and Linux ports (the only Linux port on Zoom in general).
I wonder what happened there.
Especially cynic reading the first three words here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_trickstyle_3ffee/page1

keep up the good work and stuff gog

Lol this is so crazy. I am only going to respond because someone might think you know what you are talking about.

This is not true. Look up what Linus has said about this. Kernel never breaks userspace.

It's windows that requires you to be online to log into your computer, not linux. With linux you can install, log in, and run anything you want without a network connection. Linux default is to log in offline. In fact network login is fairly hard to set up but that's a whole 'nother thing. I have no idea what this even means.

This can sometimes be true. Open source ecosystem prefers to preserve through maintaining source code rather than throwing binaries over the wall and hoping they still work in 50 years. That never works, on any OS. Why do you think most games on GOG run in emulators like dosbox and scummvm (open source software like linux by the way) or with wrappers/shims? Also wine was developed for linux and has better backwards compatibility than windows. Yeah, move along, move along.


EDIT:
Also, GOG does not really support linux so your premise is incorrect.

I'm quite aware of that being a problem, as there's quite a lot of threads here discussing precisely that topic. However, my view is that when it comes to updates, that ball is very firmly in the ball of the developer/publisher, rather than the platform of release, be it Steam, GOG, or otherwise.

Certainly, GOG could probably do more in terms of pushing developers to fulfil their obligation to customers here, but the responsibility is still that of the developer/publisher, when all's said and done. At least, that's my view.

The vast majority of my purchases here are older games, which usually work fine and for which there's no longer any updates offered or required. Any newer games I've purchased, updates and patches have been made available in what I consider to be a timely fashion, for the most part.

That said, I don't tend to pre-order or buy games immediately upon release these days, apart from Kingdom Come - Deliverance earlier this year, which reminded me why I usually wait a few months before buying newer game releases. However, patch releases seemed arrive here at a reasonable pace with other platforms.

I do see people often complaining about multiplayer options here, but that's something that doesn't affect me. I only play single player games, although I do appreciate that for those who want MP and achievements, or those kinds of things, it might be frustrating waiting longer for them at GOG.

Clearly, we've had different experiences, but it also seems more than apparent you have some axe to grind.

If your abusive posting demeanour is any indication, then perhaps that's the reason your experience of GOG's customer service might have been different to my own. They've always been polite and helpful whenever I've had the need to contact them, but that's because I'm polite and friendly when I contact them. It might come as a shock to you, but that often goes a long way when you're dealing with real people.

Please, tell us how many of your 141 GOG games you've paid for and how "hipster" and "rebel" you feel for doing so.

You make it sound as if Valve were permanently working their arses off to keep devs in check and their games up to date.

So much for civility. o.O

GOG is simply the best. ^_^

Sounds like Galaxy to me :p

fuck denuvo.

The more professional approach happened in about 2008 with Stardock releasing the Gamers Bill of Rights.

It was mocked, belittled, and eventually crushed beneath the weight of pro-drm, steam fanatics and game websites that were becoming increasingly fan-boyish to big publishers.

Remaining mature has retired countless games to a graveyard that future generations will never have access to (regardless of if they were good or bad.)

Besides, FCK; Fight Content Kill-switches is kind of cool.

I am sure you are not the only one :) I was given marrowind and oblivion and then was pissed when I had to activate on steam AND oblivion shivering isles had S7 as a gift that keeps on tearing up your computer.

They don't have to... the devs and publishers just update their titles on Steam before anywhere else because:

#1 Devs can upload their patches the second they finish them without any interaction with Valve whatsoever, that's common knowledge how Steam works... it seems most devs I've come in contact with regarding patches for GOG games don't seem to know that for Galaxy users, at least, they can do the same thing (this I know because for some games Galaxy will get the patch shortly after Steam does even though the backup installers might not come for days or weeks later... yah, those packaged installers GOG has to do manually take time)... but case in point, I contacted Zach from Zachtronics directly to see if he could update Opus Magnum on GOG to be on par with the Steam release... not only did he respond 13 minutes later to my email saying he'd do it, 58 minutes after that he emailed me back saying the patch was complete and he had already sent it to GOG... that was on Friday and guess what... neither Galaxy or the backup installers have been updated as of me writing this... he was so awesome about it, he even Dropbox'd me a zip package with the up-to-date DRM-free build of the game with the Windows, Linux and macOS builds in it to hold me over till GOG got around to updating the game on their end

#2 Most devs put all their focus where the highest concentration of users are, and unfortunately, that's not GOG

Granted, these are really issues that affect newer titles and not older stuff... but when you choose GOG for a newer title over Steam because of no DRM and then realize that the much needed patches aren't coming... that plain old sucks and then you ask yourself... was the DRM-free version worth it? I have a huge library here on GOG, but there are way too many games in it that I had to write off because the builds are all old and I play the title on Steam because of it

I just have one question...

...what does FC Kaiserslautern have to do with DRM?

(Other than that both are pretty objectively terrible, but beyond that...)